Hello and welcome. My name is Mary Yeager and I have been a physical therapist for over 20 years, primarily in the out-patient orthopedic setting. When I first started out in physical therapy, I could see patients until they got better. Co-pays, authorizations, and Medicare caps were non-existant. Life was good and paperwork was minimal!
As we all know healthcare and insurance options have drastically changed over the past 10-15 years. These changes have provided less choices for the patient and more hoops to jump through for the practitioner. Working so many years in healthcare, I began to get frustrated, feeling like it was becoming less about the patient and their well- being and more about how many patients I could see in one day, i.e. money. To be honest, it became like an assembly line getting patients in and out. I chose a career in physical therapy because I wanted to help people regain their optimal quality of life. I questioned the way healthcare was continuing to trend, was this a realistic goal? I became burned out and seriously thought about leaving the field all together, but. . . read more